154th: Rojak Poison? Sporns Shld Blame Themselves!

[makapaaa]

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She will still eat rojak


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Madam Siti Hamidah (left), a housewife in her 40s, feels the loss of her sister Aminah Samijo, who died after eating rojak from a famous Geylang Serai stall. She now goes elsewhere to get Indian food. -- ST PHOTO: SAMUEL HE

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->A family member died of food poisoning three weeks ago while another two had diarrhoea after eating Indian rojak.
But Madam Siti Hamidah, a housewife in her 40s, said she will not shy away from eating the dish.
<TABLE width=200 align=left valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD class=padr8><!-- Vodcast --><!-- Background Story --><STYLE type=text/css> #related .quote {background-color:#E7F7FF; padding:8px;margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;} #related .quote .headline {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;font-weight:bold; border-bottom:3px double #007BFF; color:#036; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:5px;} #related .quote .text {font-size:11px;color:#036;padding:5px 0px;} </STYLE>Shedding tears for lost baby
Madam Rosiah Samat said she still thinks of the baby she lost.

She was two months into her pregnancy when she suffered a miscarriage after eating contaminated Indian rojak on April 3.

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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Her sister, canteen assistant Aminah Samijo, 57, died on April 6 after she was admitted to hospital. She had eaten rojak from a famous Geylang Serai stall.
She was diagnosed with severe gastroenteritis and died from acute renal failure as the infection had affected her kidneys. She had no known medical problems.
'It was just one stall,' said Madam Siti, referring to the contaminated food it sold and which killed two women and left 152 others ill.
'How can we boycott all the other Indian rojak stalls just because this happened?' she told The Sunday Times calmly in her four-room flat in Jurong West yesterday.
She said her siblings and family have not changed their dining preferences though they now travel elsewhere for Indian food.
She now buys her favourite food - rojak, roti prata and mee goreng - from a market in the West Coast.
The family of 14 siblings were close-knit, often visiting one another's homes to chat and share food.
Her only regret was being unable to see Madam Aminah for the last time before she slipped into a coma on April5.
'When I saw her in a coma, I was so sad. I couldn't even wish her happy birthday,' she recalled, tears welling up in her eyes.
Madam Aminah had just celebrated her 57th birthday on the Sunday before she died.
The last time Madam Siti saw her was four months ago during a Hari Raya celebration last December.
'She was a very good cook, and she'd be very happy whenever we went to her house. I especially loved her lontong and rendang dishes,' Madam Siti said.
She does not blame rojak seller Sheik Allaudin Mohideen, 70, for the loss. His licence has been suspended and he may be taken to court.
If convicted under the Environment Public Health (Food Hygiene) Regulations, he could be fined up to $2,000 on each charge.
'What's the use of blaming him? It cannot bring my sister back. Maybe we'd blame him if this had happened only to her. But it affected so many others as well,' she said.
Madam Aminah's husband, Mr Omar Ali, 56, who is unemployed, is in talks with a lawyer to settle the housing loan of their three-room flat in Eunos Crescent. It was bought under her name.
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Madam Rosiah Samat, 38, suffered a miscarriage after eating Indian rojak from the Geylang Serai hawker stall. She still thinks of the baby she lost but has no plans to press charges against the stall owner. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND LIM
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->Madam Rosiah Samat said she still thinks of the baby she lost.
She was two months into her pregnancy when she suffered a miscarriage after eating contaminated Indian rojak on April 3.
She was discharged two weeks ago after nine days in hospital.
When The Sunday Times visited her two-room flat in Lengkok Bahru last Thursday, she seemed well-rested and in good spirits.
The 38-year-old housewife said she has no known medical problems and blames the rojak for her miscarriage as she did not eat anything else that fateful day.
'Of course, I regret eating it. But now it's too late. I'm just thankful my children didn't get to eat it,' she said.
None of her four kids, aged from nine to 17, was at home at the time.
Her eyes watered when she spoke about her miscarriage.
'I cried many times after I found out. But nothing can bring back my child now,' she said, adding that she does not know the sex of the foetus.
She has no wish to meet the rojak seller, Mr Sheik Allaudin Mohideen, 70. She does not know him well though she has patronised his stall in Geylang Serai.
'After I read that he threw away the rojak gravy and not the other ingredients, I got very angry. Why did he throw away only the gravy and not the other ingredients?' she asked.
She has no plans to take legal action for now.
She said her craving for rojak made her ask her husband, Mr Muhd Ahmad, 40, a delivery man, to buy it on April 2.
But the stall was closed.
She reminded him to try again on April 3. When he brought home a $6.10 order, she finished it all at 2.30pm that day, including every last bit of the peanut gravy.
Six hours later, she had acute stomach pains and diarrhoea.
She started to bleed profusely and vomit.
After she fainted, she was admitted to the KK Women's and Children's Hospital, where she was told of her miscarriage.
'Maybe if my husband had bought the rojak on Thursday, this wouldn't have happened,' she said.
He has not spoken much about the incident and they have no plans to try for another child, she added.
Estelle Low

 

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'I miss my sister but I forgive Rojak Mama'

Elysa Chen | The New Paper | Wed May 12 2010

Madam Siti Hamidah would still support rojak man by buying food at the new stall under his wife’s name at Geylang Serai Food Centre.
Singapore, May 12, 2010 - HER sister died after eating Indian rojak from his stall.
Her brother’s family also suffered from food poisoning after eating food from the same stall.
She and her husband were themselves affected a few days earlier.
But all that’s in the past now.
Madam Siti Hamidah said she would still support rojak seller Sheik Allaudin Mohideen by buying food at the new stall under his wife’s name at Geylang Serai Food Centre.
Said the housewife in her 40s: “It was an accident, he didn’t do it on purpose.
“We have been buying food from Rojak Mama for more than 20 years. The past is past. I’m glad that he has learnt his lesson and is making a comeback. Hopefully, people will accept him the way they used to.”
Yesterday, Sheik Allaudin, the man who was involved in Singapore’s worst case of food poisoning in recent years, was fined the maximum $9,000.
The 70-year-old, who operated the Rojak Geylang Serai stall, was found guilty of selling food unfit for human consumption and failing to keep his chopping board and fridge tray clean.
The incident happened in April last year at the stall in the temporary Geylang Serai market. It claimed two lives and made 152 other people ill, 48 of whom had to be hospitalised.
Madam Siti’s sister, Madam Aminah Samijo, 57, was the first to die from the food poisoning.
She collapsed at home a day after eating the rojak and was taken to Changi General Hospital (CGH).
Madam Aminah slipped into a coma that night and died two days later.
A few days later, a second victim, Madam Norani Kassim, 59, died.
Madam Siti said the $9,000 fine by the court was fair. She said she had forgiven Sheik Allaudin a long time ago.
She added: “We are all human beings, we all make mistakes. They are just trying to make a living. Do you think they have a lot of money to pay the fine? There’s no point asking for so much. Even if he got a heavier sentence, it would not win back my sister’s life.”
Of course, she misses her sister.
Wedding anniversary
Madam Siti, who recently celebrated her 20th wedding anniversary with a family gathering, said: “I was very sad that she could not attend the celebration.
“Her children also miss her very much, but we will support them as much as we can, and love them as though they are our own children.”
Madam Aminah’s three children are aged 27, 25 and 20 years.
Madam Siti regrets that she never got to wish her sister happy birthday a few days before she died.
She had gone to her sister’s home in Eunos the day before her birthday, but her sister was out.
The Next time Madam Siti saw her sister, the latter was fighting for her life in hospital.
Madam Siti had received the news that her sister had been hospitalised and rushed to CGH, but it was already too late.
She said: “I held her hand. Her whole body was cold. Her face was so swollen, and she was hooked up to so many machines.
I called out to her, I said, ‘kakak, kakak’ (Malay for elder sister) but there was no response.
“I was so shocked. I didn’t know what to say. I just blanked out.
“Later, I thought, ‘It could have been me.’ I’m thankful that my brother’s family, my husband and I are fine.”
Although she was sad that her sister died, she said that she was never angry with Sheik Allaudin.
She said: “Of course, I’m feeling heart pain because my sister died from eating rojak at his stall, but I don’t blame him. There are no hard feelings.
“It’s a fact of life. Even if you don’t eat rojak, if you’re supposed to die, you’ll still die.”
Madam Siti, who described her sister as a happy-go-lucky person, misses her the most when they have family gatherings.
The close-knit family visited one another at least once a week and often had outings to fly kites at West Coast Park or picnics at East Coast Park.
She said: “We were so close. Whenever my sister wanted to eat, I’d use my hand and put the food into her mouth. That’s what love is. I miss her laughter the most.”
But the memories do not bring her pain.
Madam Siti said: “There are only fond memories. There’s no sadness. We’ve got to let her go.”
All she hopes is that stallholders here would learn from this episode and take more responsibility to ensure that the food they sell is safe for consumption.
More careful
While she still eats at food centres, the episode has taught her to be more cautious.
She said: “Last time, I would eat everything, whether the stall was ranked A, B, or C for their hygiene standard. Now, no matter how popular it is, if it has been ranked C, I won’t buy food from that stall.”
If she ever meets Sheik Allaudin, Madam Siti said she would encourage him.
She said: “I’m looking forward to eating his rojak again. His gravy is really the best. But, if I see him, I would encourage him to build a new beginning.
“I would also tell him to be more careful and alert when it comes to preparing food, because it is a big responsibility.”

 

[HongKanSeng]

Ask PAP to offer FOC Indian Rojak at Singapore Pavilion of Shanghai World Expo lah!

 

[singveld]

i did not know the guy who sell poison rojak is friend of president. let off with a slap in the wrist, his wife now open the same shop, which mean after killing people, he is not affected in anyway. This is not a JUST sentence.